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Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Challenges and Utilities is a comprehensive resource that begins with the basics and main components of computational intelligence. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on HCI technologies, such as neural networks, support vector machines, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation, while also covering a wide range of applications and implementation issues, from pattern recognition and system modeling, to intelligent control problems and biomedical applications. The book also explores the most widely used applications of hybrid computation as well as the history of their development.
Each individual methodology provides hybrid systems with complementary reasoning and searching methods which allow the use of domain knowledge and empirical data to solve complex problems.
Provides insights into the latest research trends in hybrid intelligent algorithms and architectures Focuses on the application of hybrid intelligent techniques for pattern mining and recognition, in big data analytics, and in human-computer interaction Features hybrid intelligent applications in biomedical engineering and healthcare informatics
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Intelligent Environmental Data Monitoring for Pollution Management discusses evolving novel intelligent algorithms and their applications in the area of environmental data-centric systems guided by batch process-oriented data. Thus, the book ushers in a new era as far as environmental pollution management is concerned. It reviews the fundamental concepts of gathering, processing and analyzing data from batch processes, followed by a review of intelligent tools and techniques which can be used in this direction. In addition, it discusses novel intelligent algorithms for effective environmental pollution data management that are on par with standards laid down by the World Health Organization.
Introduces novel intelligent techniques needed to address environmental pollution for the well-being of the global environment Offers perspectives on the design, development and commissioning of intelligent applications Provides reviews on the latest intelligent technologies and algorithms related to state-of-the-art methodologies surrounding the monitoring and mitigation of environmental pollution Puts forth insights on future generation intelligent pollution monitoring techniques
Applied Mathematics in Engineering and Reliability
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Applied Mathematics in Engineering and Reliability (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 4-6 May 2016)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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Applied Mathematics in Engineering and Reliability contains papers presented at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics in Engineering and Reliability (ICAMER 2016, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 4-6 May 2016). The book covers a wide range of topics within mathematics applied in reliability, risk and engineering, including:- Risk and Reliability Analysis Methods- Maintenance Optimization- Bayesian Methods- Monte Carlo Methods for Parallel Computing of Reliability and Risk- Advanced Mathematical Methods in Engineering- Methods for solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations- Statistics and Applied Statistics, etc. The application areas range from Nuclear, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to Information Technology and Communication, Safety Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Finance or Health and Medicine. The papers cover both theory and applications, which are focused to a wide range of sectors and problem areas. Integral demonstrations of the use of reliability and engineering mathematics are provided in many practical applications concerning major technological systems and structures.
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Hybrid computational intelligent techniques are efficient in dealing with the real-world problems encountered in engineering fields. The primary objective of this book is to provide an exhaustive introduction as well as review of the hybrid computational intelligent paradigm, with supportive case studies. In addition, it aims to provide a gallery of engineering applications where this computing paradigm can be effectively use. Finally, it focuses on the recent quantum inspired hybrid intelligence to develop intelligent solutions for the future. The book also incorporates video demonstrations of each application for better understanding of the subject matter.
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Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. Web 2.0 has enabled a new generation of web-based communities, social networks, and folksonomies to facilitate collaboration among different communities.This unique text/reference compares and contrasts the ethological approach to social behavior in animals with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behavior of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. An international team of leading experts present the latest advances of various topics in intelligent-social-networks and illustrates how organizations can gain competitive advantages by applying the different emergent techniques in real-world scenarios. The work incorporates experience reports, survey articles, and intelligence techniques and theories with specific network technology problems.Topics and Features: Provides an overview social network tools, and explores methods for discovering key players in social networks, designing self-organizing search systems, and clustering blog sites, surveys techniques for exploratory analysis and text mining of social networks, approaches to tracking online community interaction, and examines how the topological features of a system affects the flow of information, reviews the models of network evolution, covering scientific co-citation networks, nature-inspired frameworks, latent social networks in e-Learning systems, and compound communities, examines the relationship between the intent of web pages, their architecture and the communities who take part in their usage and creation, discusses team selection based on members’ social context, presents social network applications, including music recommendation and face recognition in photographs, explores the use of social networks in web services that focus on the discovery stage in the life cycleof these web services.This useful and comprehensive volume will be indispensible to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Social Intelligence, as well as to researchers, developers, and postgraduates interested in intelligent-social-networks research and related areas.
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Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. Web 2.0 has enabled a new generation of web-based communities, social networks, and folksonomies to facilitate collaboration among different communities.This unique text/reference compares and contrasts the ethological approach to social behavior in animals with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behavior of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. An international team of leading experts present the latest advances of various topics in intelligent-social-networks and illustrates how organizations can gain competitive advantages by applying the different emergent techniques in real-world scenarios. The work incorporates experience reports, survey articles, and intelligence techniques and theories with specific network technology problems.Topics and Features: Provides an overview social network tools, and explores methods for discovering key players in social networks, designing self-organizing search systems, and clustering blog sites, surveys techniques for exploratory analysis and text mining of social networks, approaches to tracking online community interaction, and examines how the topological features of a system affects the flow of information, reviews the models of network evolution, covering scientific co-citation networks, nature-inspired frameworks, latent social networks in e-Learning systems, and compound communities, examines the relationship between the intent of web pages, their architecture and the communities who take part in their usage and creation, discusses team selection based on members’ social context, presents social network applications, including music recommendation and face recognition in photographs, explores the use of social networks in web services that focus on the discovery stage in the life cycleof these web services.This useful and comprehensive volume will be indispensible to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Social Intelligence, as well as to researchers, developers, and postgraduates interested in intelligent-social-networks research and related areas.
Proceedings of the Third International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’18)
Volume 1
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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This book contains papers presented in the main track of IITI 2018, the Third International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held in Sochi, Russia on September 17–21. The conference was jointly co-organized by Rostov State Transport University (Russia) and VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) with the participation of Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI).IITI 2018 was devoted to practical models and industrial applications related to intelligent information systems. It was considered as a meeting point for researchers and practitioners to enable the implementation of advanced information technologies into various industries. Nevertheless, some theoretical talks concerning the state-of-the-art in intelligent systems and soft computing were also included into proceedings.
Proceedings of the Third International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’18)
Volume 2
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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This book contains papers presented in the main track of IITI 2018, the Third International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held in Sochi, Russia on September 17–21. The conference was jointly co-organized by Rostov State Transport University (Russia) and VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) with the participation of Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI).IITI 2018 was devoted to practical models and industrial applications related to intelligent information systems. It was considered as a meeting point for researchers and practitioners to enable the implementation of advanced information technologies into various industries. Nevertheless, some theoretical talks concerning the state-of-the-art in intelligent systems and soft computing were also included into proceedings.
Del 1156 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’19)
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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This book gathers papers presented in the main track of IITI 2019, the Fourth International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry, held in Ostrava–Prague, Czech Republic on December 2–7, 2019.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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This book presents the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020 (AISI2020), which took place in Cairo, Egypt, from October 19 to 21, 2020. This international and interdisciplinary conference, which highlighted essential research and developments in the fields of informatics and intelligent systems, was organized by the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE). The book is divided into several sections, covering the following topics: Intelligent Systems, Deep Learning Technology, Document and Sentiment Analysis, Blockchain and Cyber Physical System, Health Informatics and AI against COVID-19, Data Mining, Power and Control Systems, Business Intelligence, Social Media and Digital Transformation, Robotic, Control Design, and Smart Systems.
Del 330 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Proceedings of the Fifth International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’21)
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
2 181 kr
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This book presents key advances in intelligent information technologies for industry. This book of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems contains the papers presented in the main track of IITI 2021, the Fifth International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held on September 30 – October 4, 2021 in Sirius, Russia. The conference was jointly co-organized by Rostov State Transport University (Russia) and VŠB–Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) with the participation of Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) and Sirius University (Russia).IITI 2021 was devoted to practical models and industrial applications related to intelligent information systems. It was considered as a meeting point for researchers and practitioners to enable the implementation of advanced information technologies into various industries. Nevertheless, some theoretical talks concerning the state of the art in intelligent systems and soft computing were also included into proceedings.There were 180 paper submissions from 14 countries. Each submission was reviewed by at least three chairs or PC members. We accepted 69 regular papers (38\%). Unfortunately, due to limitations of conference topics and edited volumes, the Program Committee was forced to reject some interesting papers, which did not satisfy these topics or publisher requirements. We would like to thank all authors and reviewers for their work and valuable contributions. The friendly and welcoming attitude of conference supporters and contributors made this event a success!
Del 100 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2021
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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This proceeding book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics (AISI 2021), which took place in Cairo, Egypt, during December 11-13, 2021, and is an international interdisciplinary conference that presents a spectrum of scientific research on all aspects of informatics and intelligent systems, technologies, and applications.
Medical Informatics and Bioimaging Using Artificial Intelligence
Challenges, Issues, Innovations and Recent Developments
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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This book emphasizes the latest developments and achievements in artificial intelligence and related technologies, focusing on the applications of artificial intelligence and medical diagnosis. The book describes the theory, applications, concept visualization, and critical surveys covering most aspects of AI for medical informatics.
Medical Informatics and Bioimaging Using Artificial Intelligence
Challenges, Issues, Innovations and Recent Developments
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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This book emphasizes the latest developments and achievements in artificial intelligence and related technologies, focusing on the applications of artificial intelligence and medical diagnosis. The book describes the theory, applications, concept visualization, and critical surveys covering most aspects of AI for medical informatics.
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This book aims to present dominant applications and use cases of the fast-evolving DT and determines vital Industry 4.0 technologies for building DT that can provide solutions for fighting local and globalmedical emergencies during pandemics.
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This book aims to present dominant applications and use cases of the fast-evolving DT and determines vital Industry 4.0 technologies for building DT that can provide solutions for fighting local and globalmedical emergencies during pandemics.
Del 113 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
8th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning and Technologies and Applications (AMLTA2022)
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications, AMLTA 2022, held in Cairo, Egypt, during May 5-7, 2022.
Del 152 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2022
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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This proceedings book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics (AISI 2021), which took place in Cairo, Egypt, during November 20–22, 2022, and is an international interdisciplinary conference that presents a spectrum of scientific research on all aspects of informatics and intelligent systems, technologies, and applications.
Del 220 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2024
Volume 2
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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This book contains a collection of research that discusses the latest ideas, applications, and technology related to smart systems, including medical applications, business intelligence, and intelligent-based education.
Del 233 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2024
Volume 1
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
2 387 kr
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This book includes recent research on intelligent systems and informatics.
Del 238 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics (AISI 2025)
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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This book includes recent research on intelligent systems and informatics. It presents scientific research on all aspects of informatics and intelligent systems including current research in informatics, machine and deep learning, real-time system, and business intelligence.
Del 274 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
9th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA’25), Volume 2
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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This volume explores the forefront of AI innovation in building secure, sustainable, and intelligent systems. From adaptive blockchain solutions for IoT and advances in photonic quantum computing to DNS-based cyber defense and disaster-resilient sensor networks, the research presented addresses critical challenges in digital infrastructure. Additional highlights include AI-driven environmental forecasting, assistive technologies for dyslexia, and machine learning applications in law enforcement—demonstrating AI’s expanding role in safeguarding infrastructure, optimizing resources, and advancing societal resilience.
Del 273 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
9th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA’25), Volume 1
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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This volume showcases transformative AI research addressing real-world challenges across healthcare, education, law, and digital security. Highlights include explainable deep learning for berry classification, AI-driven communication skill assessment in virtual interviews, and Arabic legal judgment prediction systems. From Quran recitation tools for children and retinal disease diagnosis to DeepFake detection, post-quantum cryptography, and socio-economic impact modeling, these works reflect AI’s growing role in building a smarter, safer, and more inclusive future.
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications
Proceedings of the 9th Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications, July 21-23, 2025, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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The book is a collection of high-quality research papers presented at 9th Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications, hosted by VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic co-sponsored by Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. The book covers areas like intelligent data analysis, computational intelligences, signal processing, and all associated applications of artificial intelligence.- Access Control System Using Facial Recognition on Raspberry Pi.- MTLM: Incorporating Bidirectional Text Information to Enhance Language Model Training in Speech Recognition Systems
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This book focuses on the fundamentals of deep learning along with reporting on the current state-of-art research on deep learning. In addition, it provides an insight of deep neural networks in action with illustrative coding examples. Deep learning is a new area of machine learning research which has been introduced with the objective of moving ML closer to one of its original goals, i.e. artificial intelligence. Deep learning was developed as an ML approach to deal with complex input-output mappings. While traditional methods successfully solve problems where final value is a simple function of input data, deep learning techniques are able to capture composite relations between non-immediately related fields, for example between air pressure recordings and English words, millions of pixels and textual description, brand-related news and future stock prices and almost all real world problems. Deep learning is a class of nature inspired machine learning algorithms that uses a cascade of multiple layers of nonlinear processing units for feature extraction and transformation. Each successive layer uses the output from the previous layer as input. The learning may be supervised (e.g. classification) and/or unsupervised (e.g. pattern analysis) manners. These algorithms learn multiple levels of representations that correspond to different levels of abstraction by resorting to some form of gradient descent for training via backpropagation. Layers that have been used in deep learning include hidden layers of an artificial neural network and sets of propositional formulas. They may also include latent variables organized layer-wise in deep generative models such as the nodes in deep belief networks and deep boltzmann machines. Deep learning is part of state-of-the-art systems in various disciplines, particularly computer vision, automatic speech recognition (ASR) and human action recognition.
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Prediction of behavior of the dynamical systems, analysis and modeling of its structure is vitally important problem in engineering, economy and science today. Examples of such systems can be seenin the world around us and of course in almost every scientific discipline including such “exotic” domains like the earth’s atmosphere, turbulent fluids, economies (exchange rate and stock markets),population growth, physics (control of plasma), information flow in social networks and its dynamics, chemistry and complex networks. To understand such dynamics and to use it in research or industrialapplications, it is important to create its models. For this purpose there is rich spectra of methods, from classical like ARMA models or Box Jenkins method to such modern ones like evolutionarycomputation, neural networks, fuzzy logic, fractal geometry, deterministic chaos and more. This proceeding book is a collection of the accepted papers to conference Nostradamus that has been held in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Proceeding also comprises of outstanding keynote speeches by distinguished guest speakers: Guanrong Chen (Hong Kong), Miguel A. F. Sanjuan (Spain), Gennady Leonov and Nikolay Kuznetsov (Russia), Petr Škoda (Czech Republic).The main aim of the conference is to create periodical possibility for students, academics and researchers to exchange their ideas and novel methods. This conference will establish forum forpresentation and discussion of recent trends in the area of applications of various predictive methods for researchers, students and academics.
Soft Computing in Industrial Applications
Proceedings of the 17th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 630 kr
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This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at WSC17, the 17th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, held from December 2012 to January 2013 on the Internet. WSC17 continues a successful series of scientific events started over a decade ago by the World Federation of Soft Computing. It brought together researchers from over the world interested in the ever advancing state of the art in the field. Continuous technological improvements make this online forum a viable gathering format for a world class conference. The aim of WSC17 was to disseminate excellent research results and contribute to building a global network of scientists interested in both theoretical foundations and practical applications of soft computing. The 2012 edition of the Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications consisted of general track and special session on Continuous Features Discretization for Anomaly Intrusion Detectors Generation and special session on Emerging Theories and Applications in Transportation Science. A total of 33 high quality research papers were accepted after a rigorous review process and are provided in this book.
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This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at IBICA2013, the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-inspired Computing and Applications. The aim of IBICA 2013 was to provide a platform for world research leaders and practitioners, to discuss the full spectrum of current theoretical developments, emerging technologies, and innovative applications of Bio-inspired Computing. Bio-inspired Computing is currently one of the most exciting research areas, and it is continuously demonstrating exceptional strength in solving complex real life problems. The main driving force of the conference is to further explore the intriguing potential of Bio-inspired Computing. IBICA 2013 was held in Ostrava, Czech Republic and hosted by the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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Genetic and Evolutionary ComputingThis volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at ICGEC 2013, the 7th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. The conference this year was technically co-sponsored by The Waseda University in Japan, Kaohsiung University of Applied Science in Taiwan, and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. ICGEC 2013 was held in Prague, Czech Republic. Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in the world whose magical atmosphere has been shaped over ten centuries. Places of the greatest tourist interest are on the Royal Route running from the Powder Tower through Celetna Street to Old Town Square, then across Charles Bridge through the Lesser Town up to the Hradcany Castle. One should not miss the Jewish Town, and the National Gallery with its fine collection of Czech Gothic art, collection of old European art, and a beautiful collection of French art. The conference was intended as an international forum for the researchers and professionals in all areas of genetic and evolutionary computing. The main topics of ICGEC 2013 included Intelligent Computing, Evolutionary Computing, Genetic Computing, and Grid Computing.
International Joint Conference SOCO’13-CISIS’13-ICEUTE’13
Salamanca, Spain, September 11th-13th, 2013 Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
2 181 kr
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This volume of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2013, CISIS 2013 and ICEUTE 2013, all conferences held in the beautiful and historic city of Salamanca (Spain), in September 2013.Soft computing represents a collection or set of computational techniques in machine learning, computer science and some engineering disciplines, which investigate, simulate, and analyze very complex issues and phenomena. After a through peer-review process, the 8th SOCO 2013 International Program Committee selected 40 papers which are published in these conference proceedings, and represents an acceptance rate of 41%. In this relevant edition a special emphasis was put on the organization of special sessions. Four special sessions were organized related to relevant topics as: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Data Mining for Industrial and Environmental Applications, Soft Computing Methods in Bioinformatics, and Soft Computing Methods, Modelling and Simulation in Electrical Engineer. The aim of the 6th CISIS 2013 conference is to offer a meeting opportunity for academic and industry-related researchers belonging to the various, vast communities of Computational Intelligence, Information Security, and Data Mining. The need for intelligent, flexible behaviour by large, complex systems, especially in mission-critical domains, is intended to be the catalyst and the aggregation stimulus for the overall event.After a through peer-review process, the CISIS 2013 International Program Committee selected 23 papers which are published in these conference proceedings achieving an acceptance rate of 39%.In the case of 4th ICEUTE 2013, the International Program Committee selected 11 papers which are published in these conference proceedings.The selection of papers was extremely rigorous in order to maintain the high quality of the conference and wewould like to thank the members of the Program Committees for their hard work in the reviewing process. This is a crucial process to the creation of a high standard conference and the SOCO, CISIS and ICEUTE conferences would not exist without their help.